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ERNEST H. PITT,
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Yo' mama
The hot-tempered, high-stakes game of yo' mama rages
on.
Jesse Helms and Jim Hunt locked horns or ce again last
week in a session that had to frustrate anyone who is interested
in the issues.
What we got instead was the governor asking the senator
a question, the senator dodging the question with a countercharge,
the governor dodging the senator's question with
his own countercharge, and so on, ad nausea.
Helms clearly tried to be ornery this time, trading his
"Aw shucks" approach in the first debate for an all-out
assault on his adversary. What Helms, in fact, succeeded at
the most was sweating a lot, breathing hard and tiring
himself plumb out.
Hunt, meanwhile, patronizingly called Helms "Jesse"
and was considerably smoother and more controlled in his
barbs, though equally vague and evasive when it came to
specifics. Helms was the slugger in this boxing match, flailing
wildly in search of a knockout. Hunt responded with
sleight of hand and calm demeanor. But neither landed the
big punch he sought because-neither wanted to address
directly what the other had to say, choosing to play a white
man's version of the dozens and call it a debate.
Hunt did, however, score significantly when Helms used
his patented race-baiting techniques to arouse racist fears.
, Helms acused Hunt of attempting to inform only black
citizens of his support for a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
by advertising that fact in black newspapers. Why, Helms
asked,'didn't Hunt do the same in white papers?
Was Hunt trying to keep a secret?
The bigger issue, of course, is that Helms opposed the
holiday, and led efforts to defeat it by discrediting Dr. King
as a communist. But Helms knows the score. If he wins,
he'll win with white votes, and all some racist white folk
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civil rights to march to the polls against the governor.
In any event, Hunt took that opportunity to, wonder of
wonders, call it as he saw it and remind his opponent, in so
many words, that this is 1984, not 1884.
Someone also ought to remind Sen. Helms, and the
voters, that the "Prince of Darkness" isn't the shoot-fromthe-hip
maverick that he purports to be. "Love him or hate
him," Helms' allies like to say, "you always know where
good ol' Jesse stands. Jim Hunt's views might shift with the
wind."
But, as Hunt might say, "Now Jesse...."
In a recent editorial, The Charlotte Observer pointed out
the inconsistencies in Helms' rhetoric and his record, including:
the fact that Helms will probably spend more money on
his senatorial campaign, most of it for television commercials,
than anyone in history, yet those spots rarely feature
his record.
Helms' contention that he hadn't proposed to eliminate
Social Security during the debate when he actually had last
year, in favor of a privately run retirement program.
Helms' statement during the debate that he didn't favor s
"superfund" to clean up hazardous waste because it was ${
to 7 billion more expensive than the federal budget coulc
stand, when, in actuality, he voted against a fund that onl)
cost $1.6 billion.
There were other half-truths, distortions and outrighi
lies, but we think our points have been made.
* Where do you really stand, Jesse?
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avoids saying rather than what he says?
And whoever came up with the bright idea for thes<
debates ought to gas up his Edsel and drive to another state
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Apartheid politics?
From the Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Westside Gazette.
If mention was made of a political convention in SoutI
Africa's apartheid setting being 90 percent-plus white
hardly anyone would be surprised. In America, a nationa
political gathering of 90 percent-plus white indicates, un
fortunately, a serious, dangerous trend for now and thn
future of America.
Many persons across the country and throughout th<
world may view this latest gathering of an almost entirely
white political party as a joke, momentarily. A few second
later, however, it will likely be realized that it is no joke. It':
for real! The gathering represents some frightening sym
bols. All Americans had better take careful notice.
And most important of all, the gathering is a celebratec
rally around the president who is supposed to to represen
all Americans. Secondly, there are reports that the KKK ha
recently endorsed the president in his re-election bid. Thi
same president was reported to have been endorsed by thi
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By TONY BROWN
Syndicated Columnist ?
"I've hit rock bottom,"
said Vanessa Williams immediately
following the revelation
that she had nosed in arte
of lovemaking with another
woman. Not quite.
In the new fall line-up for
nude and pornographic dirty
pictures of the defrocked Miss
America, leather scanties,
handcuffs and wrist bracelets
have been added to her love
arsenal. Vanessa, the unblack,
first appeared in the
September issue of Penthouse
in lesbian scenes.
She returns in the November
issue with the same white
woman, doing heaven knows
what, and again in January
featured in leather roughwear
"in attitudes suggesting
S&M," posed in a white
photographer's apartment.
There are now, to our
knowledge, three nude sessions
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overtones and one
with explicit lesbian love.
Three separate sessions took
place in a space of weeks for
two white photographers. It is
hard to believe that this is the
once-in-a-lifetime mistake that
Williams has claimed and
blamed on her "curiosity."
That summer, she reveals,
"I was feeling like my own
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By MANNING MARABLE
1 Syndicated Columnist
On Aug. 19, over 600
* delegates attended the first na1
tional convention of the
Populist Party in 88 years.
I Meeting in Nashville, the
Populists nominated Bob
Richards, an Olympic gold
medalist in the 1956 and 1960
Summer games, as their
presidential nominee.
; Richards' name will be on the
ballot in 40 states and the
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have about 300,000 members.
Richards . predicts that the
Populists could "present a
serious challenge to the
Democratic and Republican
candidates."
The sudden revival of the
Populist Party evokes
1 historical reflections on its
, predecessor. In the 1890s, the
] Populists nearly overturned
the Democratic Party's
a domination of the South. The
party united poor black and
white farmers behind a
* biracial program of economic
i justice and social reforms. It
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c class and railroad monoplies
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woman -- free, rebellious, my
own person," The New York
Times reported. People said,
"At last Vanessa felt free to
do whatever she wanted to do,
to experiment with her life."
She explains, according to
People, "How in the summer
of *82 she lost her way and
wandered into the porn (pornography)
field."
"Vanessa Williams was a
fraud on the American people
? a fraud certainly on her own
people," Bob Guccione of
Penthouse said. The original
photographs had been taken at
Vanessa's insistence, People
reported him as saying.
"She said it would be very
sexy to pose with another girl.
She was delighted with the pictures.
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and in most states fought Jim
Crow laws.
The "new" Populist Party
also denounces "international
parasitic capitalism" in its
program. It calls for tariffs to
protect American jobs, federal
spending to expand transportation
and communication
facilities, and parity for small
family farmers. These policy
positions are well within the
old Poplist tradition.
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party is its emphasis on what it
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social welfare programs, d
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white supremacy."
terms "respect for racial and
cultural diversity." The
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ropunsi program aeciares tnat
"every race" must "pursue its
destiny free from interference
by another race."
Targeting blacks, Latinos
and Jewish-Americans (not by
name, but racist innuendo),
the program states that
Populists oppose "social programs
which would radically
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taken advantage of by the
white people she trusted.
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"kissing and caressing ? and
being intimately kissed and
caressed" by a nude white
woman and in bizarre S&M
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mothers are warning their
daughters about the lubricious
tableaux of "Mess America."
Meanwhile, Essence
magazine, according to
published reports, will present
"a written bouquet" to her in
the October issue, where the
editor argues against the ethics
that condemn Williams.
Essence Editor-in-Chief
Susan Taylor sent her a bouquet
of flattery (Vanessa
Williams sent her flowers)
after Williams appeared as
Essence's latest cover girl in
men's attire, loking like a man
wearing lipstick and long hair.
It does nothing for the image
of Vanessa Williams on the
heels of posing in a simulated
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lesoian love roie.
Taylor blows sisterly kisses
in an open letter to Williams in
a tribute fit for a champion of
black womanhood. The
editorial kudos contain gems
of a runaway imagination. She
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opulists
modify another race's
behavior, (and) demands by
one race to subsidize it financially
or politically as long as it
remains on American soil ...
The Populist Partv will not
permit any racial minority,
through control of the media,
culture distortion or revolutionary
political activity, to
divide or factionalize the majority
of the society-nation in
which the majority lives."
In plain English, these
Populists are declaring war on
>pulists are declaring war on
esegregation and civil rights
letoric of anti-Semitism and
social welfare programs,
desegregation and civil rights
behind the partially-veiled
rhetoric of anti-Semitism and
white supremacy.
The Summer 1984 edition of
the anti-racist publication,
The Hammer, observes that
"the name recognition and
wholesome image of
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By MARIAN WRIGHT
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We've heard that the
economic recovery is here and
good times can roll again.
But the economic recovery
has not arrived for black
America. In 1982, during the
depths of the recession, only
59.3 percent of all black adults
over the age of 15 were
employed at any time during
the year.
During 1983, the first year .
of the so-called recovery, that
figure remained unchanged.
The unemployment rae we
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usuany near aoout (Detween
7.5 and 12 percent) measures
the change in the short-term
(weekly) count of active jobs
seekers. My figures measure
how well a comunity is able to
support its families.
The difference is like- the
difference between climate
and weather. Where jobs are
concerned, the weather is get
ting better, but blacks still live
in a very cold place.
During the whole of 1983,
one out of every five blacks
over the age of 15 was
unemployed at least once.
Two-and-a-half million of us
who were unemployed at least
once worked part of the year,
but 1.1 million looked for but
never found any work during
the year. In 1983, 500,000
black men who sought work
never found it.
These figures do not count
an additional one million
black males who are in jails,
mental hospitals, the military
or were otherwise missed by
the Census Bureau. These men
are not a part of the so-called
stable economy.
Such economic desolation
among black men means black
women must work. In fact,
during the peak of the recesPlease
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Letters
Africans need
American food
To The Editor:
Our nation has a surplus of
more than 300 million tons of
food.
?Millions oT- Africans- will
starve to death this year unless
they receive 3 million tons of
food. This 1 percent of our
surplus will sustain them for
the year and give them a
chance to plant, irrigate,
enrich the soil annd harvest.
If we fail to help our
brothers and sisters in Africa,
our nation will have the blood
of hudreds of millions in 24
African nations on our hands.
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- we help our African brothers^? ?
and sisters must be received by
the Congress and by the White
House before the law that
grants the necessary aid will be
ennacted.
Don't let our brothers annd
sisters die! Write your Congressional
representative, your
senator, your president today!
Keep the blood from our
hands!
Demand laws to use our
huge food surplus to prevent
starvation and death here at
home and abroad.
Martin J. O'Malley
Passaic, N.J.
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